Supporting device for toilet-paper packages



(No Model.) E. B. WESTON.

SUPPORTING DEVICE POR ToILBT PAPER PACKAGES.

Patented Jan.. 11,1898.

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EDWARD B. WESTON, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR TOILET-PAPER PACKAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597',230, dated Januaryl1 1898.

Application filed April 26, 1897. Serial No. 633,939. (No model.)

To a/ZZ .wh-0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. WESTON, a citizen oi' the United States,residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Supporting Devices forToilet-Paper Packages, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to devices for securing together sheets of thintoilet-paper, such as is used for toilet purposes, and in combiningtherewith a hanger by means of which the package can be suspended from asuitable plate or in a case arranged for the purpose.

The invention consists of a sheet-metal device out in one piece from asuitable blank in the manner and for the purpose to bc hereinafterpointed out and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of my improvement as cut fromthe blank. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device bent for insertionin the paper. Fig. 3 isa side view, partly in section, showing thetoilet-paper mounted on the hanger and suspended by one of thesupporting devices. Fig. #i is a similar view showing the packagesuspended by both suspending devices.

The blank of tin or thin sheet metal is shown in Fig. 1 as stamped outin a single piece by suitable dies or otherwise to form a plate A,provided with a long arm B and short arm C and a tongue D, a notch abeing cut in the under surface of the short arm C. The arms B and C arethen bent in opposite directions into a position at right angles to thebase-plate A, and a narrow vertical slit being cut in the sheets oftoilet-paper the arm B is passed through the slit, and the outer end ofthe arm, as shown in dotted lines IJ in Figs. 3 and at, is bent over atright angles to the arm, and the sheets of toilet-paper E are thusconfined and bound between the plate A and the end l) of the arm B. F isa plate or rear wall of a case for holding thevtoiletpaper, and a narrowvertical slit a: being cut in this plate the paper is suspend-ed bypassing the arm O through same. In suspending the paper in this way by asingle hook, inasmuch as the paper is to be torn from the suspended armB, it might happen that the entire package of paperY would be displaced,and in order to securely lock the package to the plate or wall I alsoprovide a horizontal slit 5c in the plate below the vertical slit andpass through the same the tongue D, as shown in Fig. ,4. ln this way itwill be seen the binder,and with it the package of paper,is securelylocked from displacement. I am aware that it is old to securetoilet-paper on a clip or binder, and suspend same from a plate or wallby means of a tongue or tongues passed through horizontal slits in thesupportingplate. These tongues, however, sustain the entire weight ofthe package, and inasmuch as the strain is in the direction of the bendof the tongue in these older constructions the entire package oftenpulls oft from the support. With my binder,however, the package issuspended upon the lower edge of the arm O,with the body of the arm in avertical position, so that the strain is not at all upon the bend of thearm, and in this way there is no liability of the hook bending out ofshape, asthere would be in case the package were sustained by the tongueD alone.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

l. As a new article of manufacture, a supporting device for toilet paperpackages, formed in a single piece from a plate of sheet metal,comprising a base-plate and an arm of sufficient length to bind thepackage and a short arm notched to form a hook, the two arms being bentwith a vertical bend in opposite directions at right angles to thebaseplate, substantially as shown and described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a supporting device for toilet-paper packages, formed in a single piece from a plate of sheet metal,comprising a base-plate and an arm of sufficient length to bind thepackage and a short arm notched to form a hook, the two `arms being bentwith a vertical bend in opposite directions at right angles to thebaseplate, the said base-plate provided with a tongue bent horizontallyto serve as an additional means of support, substantially as shownand-described.

EDNARD B. XVESTON. Vitnesses:

J. H. STAPPLEMAN, A. C. Mnrsnnn.

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